Guinness World Records points to Halifax as being the finishing point for the fastest cycling trip across Canada traversing 3,751 miles (6,037 kilometers) in 13 days, 6 hours and 13 minutes. Canadian Arvid Loewen achieved this record from July 1 to 14, 2011.

Halifax was the site of another world record on August 9, 2015, when Canadian Greg Austin Doucette deadlifted 20,128 pounds (9,130 kilograms) in one minute.

Halifax serves as headquarters for three of Canada’s 500 largest corporations by revenue: Bell Aliant Regional Communications, energy and services company Emera Incorporated and the Nova Scotia Liquor Commission.

Nova Scotia shipped C$5.2 billion worth of goods around the globe during 2016. Highest-value Nova Scotian exports are rubber, lobsters, live horses, poultry, woodpulp, plastics, and iron or steel according to the Canadian International Merchandise Trade Database.

According to the January 2017 Halifax Economic Report, Halifax’s unemployment rate was 6.1% in 2016 down from 6.3% one year earlier.

Within city limits, Halifax occupies 90.63 square miles (234.72 square kilometers). The provincial capital city’s population was 403,131 people in 2016.

The urban concentration surrounding Halifax Harbour encompassing Halifax Peninsula, Dartmouth’s core plus the Bedford-Sackville areas, Metropolitan Halifax covers a land area of 2,122.1 square miles (5,496.3 square kilometers) with a capital area population of 403,390 inhabitants.

At the city level, Halifax’s population density is 4,448 residents per square mile (1,717 per square kilometer).

Population density dilutes within the much larger Metropolitan Halifax land area with an average 190 inhabitants per square mile (73 per square kilometer).